Tapped Out, June 29th 2012

By John Michael Verive on June 29th, 2012

Tapped Out is a weekly round-up of the stories and posts that didn’t get covered on Beer of Tomorrow but that are still interesting and worth a read. So grab your favorite weekend beer and take a look!

Yesterday we covered the news for the LA Beer Scene, and this week’s Tapped-Out has some events and some fun beer stories that we haven’t touched-on yet.

Events:

Eagle Rock Brewery Tap Take-Over at Sunset Beer Co Tonight: Special flights and the rumor of an extra-special fan-favorite keg should be enough to get you out to Echo Park tonight. (Facebook)
Firestone Walker Continues Its Blitz Through Los Angeles Tonight: Sample from the amazing tap-list of Firestone Walker brews, try a special cask ale, and score a free pint glass at Steingarten LA. (Steingarten LA)
Join Beer Belly and Park’s Finest For a Forth of July Street Party: Awesome BBQ, amazing beers, and some of the coolest people in craft beer hanging out on Wednesday afternoon! (Eventbright)
Golden Road Brewing Hosts “Snifter Sunday”: Starting at 8pm on this Sunday you can wind-down with a special snifter of a mystery “big beer” a the Pub and mourn the end of the weekend. (Facebook)

Fun Stuff:

Ballast Point Is Conducting a Crazy Experiment: They’ve taken a barrel that was first used to age their Three Sheets Rum for two years and filled it with Victory At Sea Imperial Porter to barrel-age; they just emptied the barrel after aging the beer for 18 months and have re-filled it with rum! This fresh rum with age for another 2 years, and sometime in 2014 they will release 200 bottles of rum aged in a barrel that had previously housed beer and rum. (Ballast Point)
New Beers From Hangar 24: Polycot, the next Local Fields release, is in the works and should be available in late July, and the next Barrel Roll beer will be an oak-aged sour version of Polycot called Chandelle. They will also begin canning their Orange What and Helles Lager, but not until this winter. (The Full Pint)
The LA Weekly Looks at Import Alternatives to IPAs: Add something new and different to your bottle-shop list with their top-five Belgian-brewed hop-bombs. (LA Weekly)
Still not thirsty? Check-out the new video below from The Bruery where they describe the fan favorite Flemish Red Ale Oude Tart. Pucker up! (Oude Tart from The Bruery on Vimeo.)